The Puer Aeternus and the Provisional Life
There is a particular kind of man who is easy to like and hard to hold onto. He is charming, gifted, often genuinely creative, full of plans and possibility. And yet something in …
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Meeting the Shadow: What Jung Actually Meant
Few of Jung’s ideas have travelled as far as the shadow. The word now turns up in wellness apps, social media threads and self-help workbooks, often detached from anything Jung …
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The Mother Complex and the Two Faces of the Great Mother
Jung once remarked that the mother complex is perhaps the commonest and most important of all complexes. It is a striking claim, and the more closely you look at adult life, the …
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